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“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.”
― Christopher Columbus

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

“Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”
― Franz Kafka, Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition

“Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
― Joseph Campbell

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
― Albert Einstein

“There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.”
― Oscar Levant

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could be absolutely certain that my love would never be returned: how much more simple life would be. One could plod through the Siberian salt mines of existence without being bothered about happiness.”
― T.H. White, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories That Scared Even Me

“Everyone is special in their own way.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.”
― Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

“In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
― Stephanie Lennox, I Don't Remember You

“يوم نموت سيمحو النسيم الرقيق آثار أقدامنا علي الرمال .. بعدما يفني النسيم، تري من يخبر الأبدية أننا مشينا ها هنا مرة في فجر الزمان؟”
― أحمد خالد توفيق, الأخير

“أدركنا منذ زمن طويل أنه لم يعد بالإمكان قلب هذا العالم، ولا تغييره إلى الأفضل، ولا إيقاف جريانه البائس إلى الأمام. لم يكن ثمة سوى مقاومة وحيدة ممكنة : ألّا نأخذه على محمل الجد”
― Milan Kundera, La festa dell'insignificanza